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From: Gabriel Paubert <paubert@iram.es>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Ethan Benson <erbenson@alaska.net>,
	LinuxPPC Developers <linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org>
Subject: Re: Time precision, adjtime(x) vs. gettimeofday
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2003 09:07:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20031014070707.GA8972@iram.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1065884293.682.27.camel@gaston>


On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 04:58:14PM +0200, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>
> > > Assuming the fix works, is there a simple way to test for the
> > > quickserver G4 model rather than doing the "#if 0", since I like to
> > > run a common kernel across a variety of different processor models.
> >
> > i don't know, ive discussed it with benh, but he won't accept that VIA
> > is a better choice here.
>
> Hrm... I do accept that it's a better choice, but I'm sure using
> the KeyLargo timer is even better :) Anyway, I'll switch to VIA by
> default on "PowerMac3,5" type machines for now.

How does the Keylargo timer work? Any pointer?

Also for these machines it seems that OF also returns wrong values.
Maybe there is an OF update somewhere.

Does anybody know what MacOS X (most MacOS X machines probably use
ntp) do?

Sorry, more questions than answers. It superficially looks
like a HW screw-up in one specific series of machines.

	Gabriel

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  reply	other threads:[~2003-10-14  7:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-10-11  4:45 Time precision, adjtime(x) vs. gettimeofday Bill Fink
2003-10-11  5:27 ` Ethan Benson
2003-10-11 14:58   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-10-14  7:07     ` Gabriel Paubert [this message]
2003-10-14 11:16       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-10-10  5:12 Bill Fink
2003-10-10  7:33 ` Gabriel Paubert
2003-10-10 16:39   ` Bill Fink
2003-10-10  7:53 ` Ethan Benson
2003-10-08 13:32 Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-10-08 15:48 ` Gabriel Paubert
2003-10-08 16:22   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-10-08 17:50     ` Gabriel Paubert
2003-10-08 18:22       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2003-10-08 22:17 ` Pavel Machek

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